Douglas Bauer, Literature
Bauer is the editor of two anthologies, Prime Times: Writers on Television (Crown, 2004) and Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals (Crown, 2006). His novels are Dexterity (Simon & Schuster, 1989), The Very Air (Morrow, 1993), and The Book of Famous Iowans (Holt, 1997). In 2000, the University of Michigan Press published The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft, and he has published another nonfiction book, Prairie City, Iowa (Putnam, 1979). Bauer has received fellowships in fiction from the NEA and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. He holds a Doctor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany and a BA in journalism from Drake University. He has taught at Harvard, the University of New Mexico, and elsewhere, and was writer-in-residence at Rice University in 2002, and at Smith College from 2002 to 2005. He has been on the faculty of Bennington College's Writing Seminars since 1994, and joined the Bennington faculty in the fall of 2005.
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